For fat and sugar, less than .5 grams. For sodium, less than 5 milligrams. Also, the food must somehow be processed to be free of those things in order to get the simple “free” label.

As well as the 'light' loophole, they found other diet products carrying labels trumpeting that they had a certain percentage 'fat free'. A Soreen Snack fruit loaf, for example, claimed to be '90 ...